Lectures & Invited Presentantions
ΠΡΟΣΚΕΚΛΗΜΕΝΕΣ ΔΙΑΛΕΞΕΙΣ / ΟΜΙΛΙΕΣ
Sensing the Everyday: Intervention Performances in Space and Time.
Κεντρική ομιλία. Performing Space 2026 Symposium.
Nafplio, Sept. 2-6. Παρουσίαση της ομιλήτριας: Dorita Hannah, Professor of Performance Design,
University of Newcastle, Australia.
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Όταν το Χτες Συνομιλεί με το Σήμερα: Ο Λόγος στη Μάνη.
Δημόσια ανοικτή Ομιλία. Πολιτιστικό Καλοκαίρι στη Μάνη 2026
Αρεόπολη, 21 Αυγούστου, 2026
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Multisensory turn or about inheriting the uninheritable
Εναρκτήρια διάλεξη. UNA EUROPA – Συνεργασία 11 Ευρωπαϊκών πανεπιστημίων –
Μεταπτυχιακή Σχολή Jagiellonian University, Krakow.
3 Δεκεμβρίου 2025
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Burning Memory: On Greek Death, Politics and the Everyday
Lecture. University of Nottingham, UK, Department of Classics and Archaeology. Webinars 2025
3 Απριλιου 2025
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Tales of the Field
Seminar. University KU LEUVEN, Belgium, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. December 5, 2023
A Journey Through Border Spaces of the Everyday
Lecture. University of California (Santa Cruz), Center for Cultural Studies, Co-sponsor Department of Anthropology.
April 5, 2023
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Anthropology From the Borders of the Inside
2022 Inaugural Anthropology Lecture. Εναρκτήρια ακαδημαϊκή Διάλεξη του 2022
University KU LEUVEN, Belgium , 27 Σεπτεμβρίου
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Our Historical and Cultural Others
Opening Remarks at the International Forum of Spartan Studies: Ancient Sparta in the 21st Century. University of Nottingham & Municipality of Sparta, Sparta, June 8–11, 2023
Language and Body: The Cultural Heritage of the Women of Mani. Public Talk for the General Public. Organized by: Association of Maniots Everywhere / Cultural Association of Mani / Cultural Development Association of Verga / Cultural Association of Mikri Mantineia. June 20, 2022, Cultural Centre of Kalamata.
Anthropological Data in the Formation of Language and Culture in Mani
Talk. University of Athens (NKUA), Medical School / Homoioi of Mani / Municipality of Eastern Mani. October 2, 2021.
Conference Programme
Ethnographic Field and Anthropological Writing–Yesterday and Today
Lecture. University of Macedonia, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies & Laboratory for the Study of Culture, Borders and Gender. April 2, 2021 Image 1
On Sensory Memory
Open Lecture and Seminar.
University of California (Santa Cruz), The Humanities Institute. January 28–29, 2021
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Wounded Cities: Physical Disaster and a Public Ethnography of the Uninheritable
Lecture. GLASGOW University, Anthropology Network Webinars, May 22, 2020
Theatrocracy and Memory in Austerity Times
Lecture. New York University- Department of Performance Studies, Leading Scholars Lecture Series 2017, December 5, 2017
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Discussant-Evaluator in the two-part session Categories of Remembrance and Forgetting: Itineraries and Sanctuaries (part II). Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 116th Annual Meetings,
November 29–December 3, 2017, Washington DC.
Sensory Antidotes in the Era of Crisis: The Symposium Taste and Memory.
Presentation Two-part panel, Categories of Remembrance and Forgetting: Itineraries and Sanctuaries (part II). Society for Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 116th Annual Meetings, 29/10- 3/11, 2017, Washington DC.
Dialoguing with the Other: Performing Ethnography in Greece
Lecture, “Honoured Professor 2015” – Visual Anthropology Summer School on “Visual Ethnography of the Urban Landscape”, Athens, July 4–24, 2015. Leiden University, Ethnographic Film Festival (Ethnofest), and the Dutch Institute at Athens.
Δημοκρατικός Θάνατος: Υπερβαίνοντας την Χαρτογραφική Τάξη της Πόλης.
Presentation στην Ημερίδα «Δημοκρατία και Πόλη». Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση Καθηγητών
(Association Europeenne des Enseignants-AEDE). Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο, Τμήμα Διεθνών Σχέσεων & Ευρωπαϊκών Εκπαιδευτικών Προγραμμάτων, 24 Απριλίου 2015.
Archaeology of Feeling: Death and the Materiality of Memory
Ανοιχτή διάλεξη στο Ολλανδικό Ινστιτούτο-Netherlands Institute at Athens,
30 Μαρτίου, 2015. Αθήνα
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Σχολιαστής-Αξιολογητής της 11μελους συνεδρίας «The evidence of death: necrographic
accounts on death perspectives». Ετήσιο Συνέδριο, Association of Social Anthropologists of
the UK and Commonwealth (ASA), 2014: Anthropology and Enlightenment.
Edinburgh, Αγγλία, 19-22 Ιουνίου, 2014.
The Silent Detournement: ‘Flexible Graves’ in the City of the Living.
Presentation at the Session “The Evidence of Death: Necrographic Accounts on Death Perspectives.” Organized by: A. Panagiotopoulos & Diana Espirito Santo (Universitade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal). Annual Conference, Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA), 2014: Anthropology and Enlightenment. Edinburgh, England, June 19–22, 2014.
Everyday Culture–Taste and Memory
Keynote Addresses. National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens 2013.
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Discussant-Evaluator of the session “Forging Intersubjectivities”,
Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, Annual Meetings, Montreal, Canada, November 16, 2011
Greek Pains: Subjectivity, Material Experience and Communication in Modernity
Presentation . ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOS CHAIR CONFERENCE: «Colonizing the Greek Mind? The Reception of Western Psychotherapeutics in Greece.»
DEREE – The American College of Greece, Aθήνα, Μάϊος 2011.
Eros and Thanatos in the Era of Gluttony
Inaugural Public Lecture.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (A. Sawer seminar on Embodied Values: Bringing the Senses Back to the Environment),
University of Edinburgh, November 12, 2010
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Βιβλιοπαρουσίαση,
Η Ιστορία της Καρδιάς του καθηγητή Ole Martin Hoystad, υπό την αιγίδα της
Νορβηγικής Πρεσβείας και του Νορβηγικού Ινστιτούτου, Ωνάσειο Καρδιοχειρουργικό Κέντρο,
10 Νοεμβρίου 2010.
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Cultural Memory in Diaspora
Lecture. Organizers: The Program in Modern Greek Studies and The Department of Anthropology,
University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, April 8, 2010.
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Border Echoes
Presentation – 10th Annual Conference, “Soundscapes of the Spirit: Cosmology and Sound Art
from the Black to the Aral Seas”. Διοργανωτές: Russian, East European and Eurasian Center (REEEC)
and School of Music, University of Illinois και Department of Music, University of Minnesota.
8–10 Απριλίου, 2010.
Poetry, Sound and Body: The Dialogic Performance of Mani – Yesterday and Today
Open Lecture. Kardamyli High School. Messinia, Greece, May 6, 2010.
Environment and History, Place and Memory
Open Lecture. People’s University of Feres. Feres, Norther Greece, February 8, 2009.
The Role of the Greek Diaspora in the Contemporary World
Open Lecture. PanMacedonian Studies Center. New York, USA, December 11, 2009.
Feeling, Materiality and the Environment
Lecture. Organizers: Department of Anthropology and Department of Environmental Studies, Adelphi University, New York, USA, December 7, 2009.
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Discussant-Evaluator of the session Reimagining Bodies and Embodying Value in a Neoliberal Age.
Organizers: George Paul Mieu & Fred Ketchum (University of Chicago). Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, USA, December 5, 2009.
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The Body in the Age of Diaspora
Presentation. XIV International Meeting of Ancient Drama “Stranger – Metic”. European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Ministry of Culture. Delphi: July 3–11, 2009.
Moderator of Roundtable Discussion on the topic Reculturalizing Europe: From Cultural Managements to Performing Ethnography. Organized by: Society for the Anthropology of Europe, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, USA, December 5, 2009.
The Poetics of Dialogue: Contributions of Mani to Contemporary Europe
Public TalkOrganized by: GNTO Laconia, Prefecture of Laconia and the Melina Mercouri Foundation. Within the framework of the European Day of Culture 2000: “Freedom of Expression and Dialogue.” Gytheio, Laconia,May 2000.
Chair of the session “Philosophy and Death”,
Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS), University of Nottingham, England, and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Sparta, April 23–25, 2009.
Memory and Material Culture—The Experience of Messenia
Invited speech.
Open Seminar: 40 Years Since the Earthquakes in Kalamata.
7th Experimental Junior High School of Kalamata, March 6, 2026
Chair of the session “Byzantine Eschatology”,
Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS), University of Nottingham, England, and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Sparta, April 23–25, 2009.
Antiphony, Ritual and the Construction of Truth
Invited Presentation at the International Conference Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese, Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS), Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham, England, and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Sparta, April 23–25, 2009.
The Anthropological Approach to the Mani Laments
Open speech at the Theatre Studies Department of Kardamyli High School, In the context of the Cultural Programme The Mani Laments. Kardamyli, April 10, 2009.
Book Presentation at an open event for the book Facing the Venetian Castle by Sokratis Kougeas.
DIPETHE Theater of Kalamata, November 30, 2008, Panhellenic Association of Women of Mani.
The Ethics of Antiphony: Women’s Discourse in Ancient and Contemporary Greece
Invited Presentation at the XIII International Meeting of Ancient Drama: Women in Ancient Drama. European Cultural Centre of Delphi – Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Delphi, July 2007.
The Antiphony of the Senses
Keynote Address at the Symposium/Seminar Media Ethnography: Transcultural Research Practice. Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology. Dublin, Ireland, March 29–31, 2007.
Phoning Divination: Evil Eye, Divination and the Networked Body
Presentation at the international meeting Media Technologies, Sensory Experience, and the Making of Religious Subjects.
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, March 30–April 1, 2006.
Antiphony, Ritual and the Construction of Truth
Invited Precentation at the International Symposium: Theatre and Ritual, September 10–12, 2005. Centre for Classical Drama, Panteion University and the Municipality of Thebes, Greece. September 10–12, 2005.
Medicine, Art and the Body
Invited presentation at the Benaki Museum, July 19, 2005. Philosophical Café . Benaki Museum & Centre for Cultural Studies, July 19, 2005
Βιβλιοπαρουσίαση σε ανοιχτή εκδήλωση για το βιβλίο Η Γυναίκα Κυρία της Μεσσηνιακής
Μάνης of Σωκράτη Κουγέα. Πανελλήνια Ένωση Γυναικών Μάνης.
Καλαμάτα, 24 Οκτωβρίου 2004,
Archaeology of Feeling: The Materiality of Memory
Keynote Address at the symposium Embodied Histories: Bodies, Senses, Memories in Archaeology and Anthropology. School of Archaeology, University of Southampton, England (Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, UK), January 24–25, 2003.
The Senses and Media as Material Culture – Fieldwork Approaches
Lecture Series as Le Boff Fellow 2002, at the School of Culture and Communication, New York University, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University, November 21, 2002.
Eros and Thanatos
Keynote Address. Greek-Scandinavian Conference “Sexualities and Society”, under the auspices of: Academy of Athens, University of Athens and Stockholm University. Athens: October 4–6, 2001.
The Battle of Dyros, Women’s Battle
Delivery of the ceremonial open address for the national anniversary of the Battle of Dyros (1826). Organized by: Prefectural of Laconia and the Municipality of Oitylo, Mani. Dyros, June 25, 2000.
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The Poetry of Dialogue: Contributions of Mani to Contemporary Europe
Public Talk. Organized by: GNTO Laconia, Prefectural Administration of Laconia and the Melina Mercouri Foundation. Within the framework of the European Day of Culture 2000: “Freedom of Expression and Dialogue.” Gytheio, May 2000.
Ελιά: μια Ιστορική και Πολιτισμική Σοδειά – Η Έρευνα για τα Ελαιοτριβεία της Μεσσηνίας
Ομιλία στο διεπιστημονικό Συνέδριο “Η Ελιά και το Λάδι: Από την Αρχαιότητα εως Σήμερα.”
1– 2 Οκτωβρίου, 1999, Μέγαρο Ακαδημίας Αθηνών. Διοργανωτές: Ακαδημία Αθηνών/Κέντρο Ερεύνης
της Ελληνικής Λαογραφίας, Musee de l’Olivier/Nyons- France, Instituto de Estudios Sociales
Avanzados/ Barcelone- Spain, and Ελληνικό Μουσείο της Ελιάς, Κρήτη.
Η Εποχή των Κυριών
Ομιλία στο συμπόσιο–δημόσια εκδήλωση “Στα Χνάρια μιας Κυρίας – Μαρία Μπασακάρη της Καλαμάτας.”
28 Φεβρουαρίου, 1999.
Έρευνα, κείμενο στο συνοδευτικό ντοκυμαντέρ, διοργάνωση: Κ. Νάντια Σερεμετάκη.
Στα πλαίσια του πολιτιστικού προγράμματος ““Excavating Time”. The Department of Cultural Studies, ΔΕΠΑΚ.
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March 23, 1821 and European Politics,
Kalamata, March 1998. Department of Cultural Studies. See here
Βιβλιοπαρουσίαση σε δημόσια εκδήλωση για το βιβλίο Σκιές στο Περιστύλιο
of Γιώργου Παπαχρήστου, Καλαμάτα, 24 Απριλίου 1998.
Φιλοσοφικά Ποιητικά Ταξίδια στο Χώρο και το Χρόνο
Ομιλία στο ομώνυμο συνέδριο με πολυμέσα, Καλαμάτα 17 –19 Φεβρ. 1997.
Στo πλαίσιo του πολιτιστικού προγράμματος ““Excavating Time”.
The Department of Cultural Studies, ΔΕΠΑΚ & Νομαρχιακή Αυτοδιοίκηση Μεσσηνίας.
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History and Material Culture in Messenia
Presentation at the multimedia conference in the context of the cultural programme “Excavating Time”. Department of Cultural Studies,DEPAK, March 14–26, 1997.
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Earthquake: Popular Memory and the Poetics of Fragments
Presentation at the conference-public event “The City Remembers: Kalamata 10 Years Later – The Earthquakes of ’86”. Kalamata, November 1996. Department of Cultural Studies, DEPAK.Speech SectorSee here
Visible Risk: HIV/AIDS and the Cultural Dimension of the Body
Presentation at the “Educational Seminar on AIDS”, National School of Public Health, January 1996.
Politicizing Experience: Critical Reflections on Subjectivity and Locality
Ομιλία – Σχολιασμός επί των εργασιών της συνεδρίας “Politicizing Experience: Critical Reflections on Bodies and Histories, Subjectivity and Locality”. Υπό την αιγίδα των American Ethnological Society and
Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 1995.
Women and the Pathogenic on the Border
Presentation at the University of Zagreb, international conference “Gendered Violence: Physical Aggression, Social Domination, Bodily Processes and Cultural Reconstruction.” Organized by: The Institute for Applied Social Research, University of Zagreb, and Center for Slavic and East European Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Zagreb, 1995.
AIDS & Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Prevention in Border Areas – The Case of Greece
Invited Talk – participation as representative of the Greek Ministry of Health, “Workshop on HIV/AIDS/STD Prevention in Border Areas” – with representatives from Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Russia, Albania, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy. International Meeting on AIDS Prevention, World Health Organization (WHO), Athens: October 1994.
Greek Albanian Border –Conflict and Cultures
Presentation in the session “Receptions of Violence: Reactive After–Texts, After–Images and
the Post–Ethnographic Site.
Συν-οργανώτρια: C. Nadia Seremetakis. Ethnological Society and Society for Humanistic Anthropology,
στο ετήσιο συνέδριο του American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, 1994.
The Senses in Other Modernities
Ομιλία in the session “The Anthropology of the Senses and European Modernity.
Οργανώτρια – προεδρεύουσα: C. Nadia Seremetakis,
Society for the Anthropology of Europe, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 1991.
Feminism and Women’s Identities – Case Study: Greece
Presentation in the session of the same name. Chair: C. Nadia Seremetakis. Fourth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Hunter College, New York, 1990.
Religious and Medical Colonization of Death in Southern Greece
Presentation in the session “Theorizing Europe: Anthropological Modernities.”
Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association,
Ουάσινγκτον, 1989.
Greek and Greek-American Women in Voice and Text
Keynote Address at the first multimedia interdisciplinary conference of the Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies & New York University. Organizer: C. Nadia Seremetakis. April 1989. See here
Women, Divination and the Cultural Construction of Death in the S. Peloponnese
Presentation in the session “Women in the Creation and Transmission of Culture”. Chair: C. Nadia Seremetakis. Third International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, University of Dublin, Ireland, 1987.
Cross – Cultural Problems in a Literacy – ESL Curriculum
Lecture. Department of Linguistics, Queens College, City University of New York, May 10, 1983.
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